Első Emelet

Első Emelet
1982 line-up. Clockwise from left: István Tereh, György Cser. Gábor Kisszabó, Csaba Bogdán, Ferenc Rausch, Gábor Berkes
Background information
Origin	Budapest, Hungary
Genres	Pop rock new wave synth-pop funk rock
Years active	1982–1992 2008–2013 2017–present
Labels	Start Favorit (Hungaroton labels)
Past members	Gábor Berkes Csaba Bogdán Béla Patkó Kiki Gábor Kisszabó István Tereh Gábor Szentmihályi Zsolt Hastó Tamás Kelemen Ferenc Rausch György Cser Vilmos Tóth
Website	elsoemelet.hu

The Első Emelet (Hungarian: "First Floor") were a Hungarian pop band formed in Budapest in 1982 by former members of two progressive rock bands: Solaris and Lobogó. Their music video for "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("Stop or I'll Shoot!") appeared as "Baby, Baby" by "First Floor" in the music video for "Money for Nothing" by British rock band Dire Straits.^[1]

Members

• Gábor Berkes – keyboards, vocals
• Csaba Bogdán – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Béla Patkó Kiki – vocals
• Gábor Kisszabó – bass guitar, guitar, vocals
• Gábor Szentmihályi – percussion
• Zsolt Hastó – percussion
• István Tereh – backing vocals, percussion, manager
• Tamás Kelemen – guitar
• Zsolt Hastó – drums (from 2008–2013)
• Ferenc Rausch – drums (1982–1983)
• György Cser – vocals (1982)
• Vilmos Tóth – drums (1983)
• Szörényi Örs – drums (1990)

Discography

Studio albums

• Első Emelet 1 (1984)
• Első Emelet 2 (1985)
• Első Emelet 3 (1986)
• Első Emelet 4 (1987)
• Naplemez (1988)
• Vadkelet (1989)
• Kis generáció (1990)
• Megyek a szívem után (2010)

Live albums

• Turné '88 (1988)

Compilation albums

• Best of (1997)

References

1. "Biográfia" (in Hungarian). Elsoemelet.hu. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Első Emelet discography at Discogs